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Welcome to Refresh – a new initiative by young people, for young people, to provide a free-market response to Britain's biggest issues ​

While lending a hand at CCHQ during the 2010 election campaign, I spent a few days with fellow young Tories knocking on doors, canvassing opinions and encouraging strangers to get to the ballot box.

It was a different time – we were unfalteringly optimistic that Cameron's brand of Conservatism could pull the party back from a decade in the wilderness. And our message wasn’t just connecting with old voters – support for the Tories matched that of Labour and the Lib Dems that year.

Today the picture is rather different. Under Corbyn and the Momentum campaign,...